Picture viewer with successive feed means
OwnerJohn H. Weggelandinventor
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Abstract
A picture viewer that comprises a generally flat housing for a stack of pictures or similar rectangular items and includes a manually reciprocative shuttle upon which such a stack is stored, said shuttle having a rear edge portion for engaging the rear edge of the lowermost items on the shuttle, whereby, upon protractive movement of the shuttle, the item engaged therewith is withdrawn from the bottom of the stack to be totally therebeyond, said shuttle being provided with means to resiliently upwardly bias said removed item to a position above the level of the top of the stack, and said item, during retractive movement of the shuttle to its retracted position, moves said item between the top of the stack and the top wall of the housing to be in register with a viewing opening in said top wall.
Claims7
A picture viewer comprising:
- a rectangular housing having three closed and one open side, a top and a bottom,
- a manually slidable shuttle normally disposed on the bottom of said housing and guided for manual movement from said position within said housing and a position extending from the mentioned open side of the housing, the rearward portion of said shuttle being provided with an abutment means for locating a stack of pictures disposed upon said shuttle, said abutment engaging the rearward edge of the lowermost picture of the stack whereby, when the shuttle is moved to its extended position, only said lowermost picture is transported by the shuttle to a position beyond the forward side of the stack,
- an upwardly flexed tongue provided on the top surface of the rearward end of the shuttle to upwardly raise the rear end of the picture upon the shuttle;
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- the forward end of the shuttle being provided with a raised rearwardly directed lip, the underface of said lip being engaged by the forward end of the picture that is upwardly raised by the tongue, and upon return movement of the shuttle, the picture thereon is moved by the mentioned lip of the shuttle to a position on the top of the stack and into register with the abutment which locates the stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.